Just something worth being aware of…

I’m sure most people didn’t see any effect of “flattening the curve,” but as an ER doctor it really mattered.

During the first big Covid wave we had cases and deaths in our rural hospital, but due to widespread public participation in minimizing spread we were never overwhelmed. That was the purpose of “flattening the curve.” To keep spread low enough that hospitals would not be overwhelmed.

By the time the second wave came around people were tired of paying attention to masks and distancing, and as a result little hospitals like mine were overwhelmed. I had deathly ill patients in every room and nowhere to send them, because every other hospital was equally overwhelmed. I had to make decisions about who got ventilators and who didn’t. People also died of injuries and illness unrelated to covid that shouldn’t have been fatal just because we were overwhelmed with critical covid patients, and all care was sub-optimal.

I realized most people watching from home on Twitter didn’t live through what I experienced, but perhaps concluding that important prevention messages were a joke because you never saw the effect might be premature.

Plenty of average people might think the things we say here about the importance of privacy and hard money are silly because they’ve never personally noticed the negative effects of privacy invasion and fiat devaluation. Be mindful about belittle something just because you never saw the consequences and you didn’t understand it.

Thanks

According to Bloomberg nearly half of Vanguard 401(k) investors actively managing their money and over age 55 held more than 70% of their portfolios in stocks.

Imagine having to work your entire life and putting away money into stocks and bonds meant to protect your savings and now at this late stage you're still looking to compound your returns as much as possible before you draw down too much

Plenty of boomers don't realise that this won't work and eventually poor annual returns combined with inflation-adjusted consumption will see them eat into their capital and many are #NGMI

Even a small allocation to #Bitcoin could offset it, but sadly people have to find out the hard way, and many will never find out until its too late

There’s a stage in life when you stop playing tic-tac-toe because no one wins.

Than you have kids and it becomes fun again.

Those lil fuckers are so fucking stupid.

Seize the day.

Bask in nature.

Take deep breaths.

Drink the sunlight.

Take a walk.

Contemplate the universe.

Marvel at life.

Subvert the State.

This movement will succeed because individuals will make sure it succeeds. There is no other option. 🫡

The First Amendment was not written for easy speech. It was written for the speech that nobody likes you for, bitch!

Holy shit, you guys!

Oppenheimer is the best movie I’ve seen in… forever. What an EPIC film 🔥

Worth a ticket to the movies!!

The people who fearmonger about AI being dangerous are the same people who wants to ban the open source movement that are democratizing AIs to the people.

They're not concerned about safety. They are concerned about control.

The people who fearmonger about AI being dangerous are the same people who wants to ban the open source movement that are democratizing AIs to the people.

They're not concerned about safety. They are concerned about control.

regarding self custody: why the fuck would you spend time earning money and not spend time learning how to take care of it?

#weedstr

Today, 1 BTC will get you a mid-size car, and hardly anyone is paying attention to it.

Next cycle, 1 BTC will likely get you a mid-size house, and there’ll still be naysayers.

Lesson in there.

Looking for help with an invention. It’s a white noise machine.

When it senses a certain decibel level in my neighbourhood it will set off a single stage solid fuel unstoppable rocket in front of my house

You know so my neighbours can enjoy it too.

Thinking of something like this. Anyone have any contacts at NASA